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Hello Everyone,
Now that AHref's has killed their keyword analysis I am on the search for a substitute.I just can't see paying $80 per month for their link analysis only even-though I do find their link index to be much much much more updated then any other company even SeoMoz (sorry Rand and company).

Does anyone have any suggestions? SemRush is the only one I have seen to come close.

Thank you!

Pete

Hello All,

If I have a internal page that has low quality links point to it or a penality. Can I just remove the page, and start over versus trying to remove the links? Over time wouldn't this page disapear along with the penalty on that page?

Kinda like pruning a tree? Cutting off the junk limbs so other could grow stronger, or to start new fresh ones.

Example:

www.domain.com

Penalized Internal Page:

(Say this page is penalized due to keyword stuffing, and has low quality links pointing to it like blog comments, or profiles)

www.domain.com/penalized-internal-page.com

Would it be effective to just delete this page (www.domain.com/penalized-internal-page.com) and start over with a new page.

New Internal Page:

www.domain.com/new-internal-page.com

I would of course lose any good links point to that page, but it might be easier then trying to remove old back links.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Pete

Hi Charles,

Thank you for the response. Just to clairify, as I have never had a penalty, or anything like this happen in the past.

If Google devalues my links, then I should not worry about removing them since they are not passing link juice?

I've never used a blog network, and I have not revived any messages from Google in WMT about spammy links.

I appreciate your help.

If anyone else has any repsonses, I would love to hear them!

Thank you,

Pete

Hello Everyone,

I own a small web design firm website. My site was for sure hit by Penguin, but not sure why they devalued my pages. I dont really do SEO or link building except for my own site. I normally turn clients down when they want SEO services. Mainly because we do web design really well, so I've chosen to invest my time doing that versus doing both.

For most of my keywords I took a 5-10 spot drop. Nothing super major, but enough that its tanking my business. I've survived all of the panda stuff, so I assumed my content writing, and link building tactics were good, but I'm wrong.

Here is my website: http://www.clikzy.com/ I will explain what I have been doing below, and I am looking for a little help/direction. I don't mind if you look at my site, links, and are brutally honest.

I do have original content ( I just ran everything through copyscape a month prior), and I occasionally get duplicate pages as my CMS tends to create them automatically, but we do a fairly good job of redirecting those pages when they occur.

My link building tactics have been a mixture of the following. I have used anchor text alot which could be my demise.

Forum postings
Blog Comments
Website Footers (roughly 20 over the course of a year)
Web Design Directories (explain below)

I did start using directories in January. I would use OpenSite Explorer, and review some of my bigger competitors, and would occasionally get listed on a web design directory they were on. I think total I probably purchase 8-10 since Jan  including botw, business.com, etc.

I have some local pages which I create case studies for which ranked fairly well. For instance for the term Baltimore Web Design I used to rank #1, but not I'm 5-6.

Here's the keyword: http://www.clikzy.com/reston-web-design.html

One more note: I did redirect an older website I have (12 years) to my current site (3 years) in Jan. Mainly because it ranked well for terms in NYC. I've dropped for those terms around 5 spots.

I have a few questions:

1. What would you suggest to fix something like this?

Power Content?

Better Links? (of course, we all want better links)

2. Remove links? I am not sure which ones are bad.

One thought was to just kill my local pages (roughly 15 pages) which would also kill any bad links I may have point to them.

3. If I have a bad link pointing to a internal page, could that bring down my home page rankings?

Any help would be appreciated.

I am in the process of interviewing  for a full time PR person to come on staff to help us with our content, and PR. I knew I should have invested in this person a year ago! ha!

Thank you!

Pete

Hi Vahe,

Thank you for the repsonse. Do you have any references on what a good quality theme site may be?

Thank you,

Pete

Hello Everyone,

I have been analyzing various link building strategies recently. One tactic that always seems to come up is to give stuff away. I wanted to get everyones thoughts on creating Wordpress and Joomla Themes, then giving them away as a link building strategy? The goal would be to create some stellar themes, then place our website link in the footer with some text that would read "Wordpress Theme by Pete Juratovic" and Pete Juratovic would point to my website.

Is this a good tactic, or would this look like spam? If spam, why? Why would this tactic be any different then creating a great infographic as a link building stratedgy?

Pete

Hi Charles,

Thank you for the response. Just to clairify, as I have never had a penalty, or anything like this happen in the past.

If Google devalues my links, then I should not worry about removing them since they are not passing link juice?

I've never used a blog network, and I have not revived any messages from Google in WMT about spammy links.

I appreciate your help.

If anyone else has any repsonses, I would love to hear them!

Thank you,

Pete